TED-Ed
How Does Money Laundering Work?
Is that dollar bill in your pocket part of a criminal enterprise? How can you tell? Learn about the fundamentals of money laundering in an informative video that focuses on Al Capone and his famous financial schemes, as well as how...
Crash Course
Media and Money: Crash Course Media Literacy #5
Money talks ... especially in the media world! How do finances influence the media we see? Answer that, and many other questions using a video in a media literacy series. The narrator discusses how economic reasons influence media...
TED-Ed
History vs. Andrew Jackson
What would happen if the values and decisions of the past were put on trial today? Watch as the answer unfolds in a clever cartoon drama centering on the presidency of Andrew Jackson. A great way of opening the door to multiple points of...
TED-Ed
On Being a Woman and a Diplomat
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." Listen as former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright discusses her position as United States ambassador to the United Nations in the Gulf War, and makes a...
TED-Ed
Why Is Vermeer's "Girl with the Pearl Earring" Considered a Masterpiece?
Johannes Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring is the subject of a short video that asks viewers to consider why the enigmatic painting has captured the attention of so many. Using other Vermeer works to provide a contrast, the...
TED-Ed
Group Theory 101: How to Play a Rubik’s Cube Like a Piano
The strong connections between math and music are explored in this short video that uses group theory to visualize musical chords. Makes you wonder what Arthur Rubinstein would have thought of all this.
Crash Course
Specialization and Trade
Do companies work better when everyone works on everything, or when each person or department focuses on one specialized task? Explore the benefits of specialization and trade in the modern global economy with a explanatory video.
TED-Ed
Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" Have a Hidden Message?
Like Mark Twain's introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz warns readers not to search for a hidden message or moral in his tale. Yet many, such as Henry Littlefield, have done...
TED-Ed
Why is Bread Fluffy, Vinegar Sour, and Swiss Cheese Holey?
The gourmands and foodies in your class will love this gastronomical video! Educational and entertaining, the video explains the natural and added microorganisms that occur with food production, including yeast in bread, carbonation in...
TED-Ed
Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future
Here is a very interesting visual for analyzing a country's shift from a pre-industrial society to one with an industrial or post-industrial economy. The video explains how a population pyramid is used to track a country's...
TED-Ed
What Are the Universal Human Rights?
Help class members develop an understanding of the complexity of establishing an enunciation of universal human rights, with this short video that overviews the some of the issues involved.
TED-Ed
How Does the Stock Market Work?
The stock market seems like an invisible, omnipotent being that can cause an economy to flourish or flounder at its slightest whim. Students learn about the reality of the stock market, including its origins in the Dutch East India...
TED-Ed
Social Animal
Similar to the rebirth of knowledge of the Enlightenment and Renaissance periods, David Brooks claims that today, we are developing a revolution in consciousness, exploring the depths of our nature and coming away with a new humanism....
Orange County Water Atlas
Location, Location, Location…
Young geographers discover not only how to read and recognize coordinates on a map, but also gain a deeper understanding of latitude and longitude and how climate changes can vary significantly across latitudes.
California Academy of Science
What is the Environmental Impact of Feeding the World?
One in every seven people suffer from a lack of basic food. Our Hungry Planet introduces this complex issue in the second lesson of an interesting 13-part unit. It discusses the space needed to grow and raise food, the transportation of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Decision Making/cost Benefit Analysis
This video teaches the concepts of Decision Making and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Decision making refers to the process by which rational consumers seeking their own happiness or utility will make choices. [2:21]
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Between Two Worlds: Mexico at the Crossroads
Lesson uses videos from notable scholars to help high school students consider the economic and political challenges Mexicans face as they learn from the from the perspective of Mexican citizens. Videos coincide with other learning...
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: China on the World Stage: Weighing the u.s. Response
A series of scholarly video from which students explore the history of Western relations with China and consider the global impact of China's economic growth, societal transformation, and increasing international involvement.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: Russia's Transformation: Challenges for u.s. Policy
Scholarly video series surveys the history of U.S.-Russia relations and considers the economic problems and political crises that have shaped the outlook of Russia in recent decades.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: History, Revolution, and Reform: New Directions for Cuba
Lesson with scholarly videos and corresponding readings traces Cuba's history from the country's precolonial past to its most recent economic, social, and political changes and consider the discussions Cubans are having today.
Choices Program, Brown University
Choices: The Russian Revolution
Scholarly video with student reading material from which we learn about the political and economic conditions that led to the fall of the Russian tsar and explores the competing political ideologies that Russian people debated in 1917.
Crash Course
Crash Course Economics #27: Behavioral Economics
Crash Course video episode with hosts, Jacob Clifford and Adrienne Hill, talks about the re-emergence of behavioral economics as a field of study and the emotional and social side of buying. [10:33]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting
The psychologist Laurie Santos (Yale University) explains the phenomenon of mental accounting: why we don't always assume that money is fungible. She explores why we set up different accounts for different purchases and how we can use...
Crash Course
Crash Course Economics #3: Economic Systems and Macroeconomics
Economics is basically about choices. Look at the broadest economic choices when we talk about the difference between planned economies and market economies. Identify communism, socialism, command economies, and capitalism. Recognize how...